Jeanne, I'd just like to add that there is already a Russia sponsored attempt to fracture the unity of the Democratic Party. It's a bot-spread message inciting a split between Progressives, Liberals, and the Centrist Left. It goes under the heading #WalkAway, #JustWalkAway, #WalkAwayCampaign.
Be wary of mainstream media messaging that the 'left' is fracturing. It's BS.
#UnitedWeStand
R1
Rick - Welcome, and I am so sorry I did not see your post in time. The group that organized the event is called Mijente (you can find them on Facebook).
Also I recommend interested people look at Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ) - there are chapters in most states, and they are good at getting people to different actions. They say that they are held accountable by BLM. They can be found here: http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/
I don't have a way to post my pics and videos from today here, sorry. But it was great turnout with 2 famous actresses participating as marchers (Diana Guerrero and Frances Fisher). The highlight was a couple of young men rappelling down the side of a big hotel to unfurl a huge "FREE FAMILIES NOW" banner. "Red track" volunteers linked arms and laid down across the main entrances of both our federal building and federal courthouse. 2 or 3 federal employees joined us for a brief period. I gave my contact info to a group who were registering voters ("Not many customers," they said, I replied "You're kinda preaching to the choir here." Going into Fall I want to focus on voter reg, GOTV (get out the vote) and transport to polls. I left just as the po-po were getting ready to start arresting the people blocking the doorways with their bodies.
I also recommend that everyone downloads ACLU's Mobile Justice App - you can find it on Google Play or iPhone app store, be sure to select the one for your home state.
R1 - thanks for the heads up!
Lastly, let me share a few of our chants from today, feel free to use them any time!! Let me know if anyone needs translation.
- When I say Chinga you say Migra! (Chinga! Migra!)
- call: Mi gente! response: Presente!
- call: Tell me what community looks like response: This is what community looks like!
- Move Trump, move out the way, move out the way, Trump, move out the way!!
- There ain't no party like a people power party cuz a people power party don't stop! (Say what?!?)
- Mi gente! Presente! Mi gente! Presente! I do it for my people! Yo lo hago por mi gente!
- Arriba, abajo, la migra al carajo!
- Escucha! Escucha! Estamos en la lucha!
- Roses are red! Tacos are enjoyable! Don't blame Mexicans cuz you're unemployable!
- I believe that we will win!
Used up all my spoons today... time to rest... thanks/love/peace.
R1, if I may, where did you get the info (what is your soruce)? I would like to know so I can link the root info and proof as I inform others to snuff it out. Was it from a person? News? If a person, where did they get the info?
If we to even attempt to win in November, the accuracy of research to snuff this out and shoot it down before it gains much momentum is crucial. This and everything else the russians do.
Thx.
Rick, I got the info from https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethCroniseMcLaughlin/ it's on her feed somewhere.
...she is a lawyer who used to try criminal cases, RICO & Mob & gvmt corruption cases in the same district as the Cohen & Manafort cases. She is a resistance leader and does a daily podcast analyzing the legal news, then issues calls for resistance action.
I've been aware that she fact checks things before putting them out to her 10ok followers. R1
Got it! Don't have fb anymore due to privacy concerns. But was able to reach her page via the net. I took a pic of the post and will sniff and digg around. Meanwhile I will pass her feed around to inform people. Thanks.
I recommend people watch the activist R1 mentioned in her last post. https://m.facebook.com/ElizabethCroniseMcLaughlin/ Facebook video at the top of her fb page.
The woman is powerful and provides more info than other sources I’ve read. She provides you with the most critical actions you can take right now. Thank you R1.
she had the latest info on reunifying the immigrant children which is well worth watching.
Then there is the Supreme Court nominee issue which she points out is the most critical determinant of the future right now.
She told everyone to get on the phones and call Senators to influence moderate Republicans and any dems who might defect to trump. I’m on it. The last time I called my delegation, they responded.
Very nice! I started a new twitter acct and found it. Here is a link to pass around. Have a looksie.
http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/
Look for GMF
What Elizabeth posted came from " Alt. U.S. Press Sec." Go to Twitter and facebook, find it - share and retweet it. Lets see if we can down that fake campaign before it builds momentum. Right now that fake campaign is at 300 tweets in the past 48 hours.
Really!? Is she on twitter?
Done. Rick, what a great find that dashboard is! R1
Thanks Rick!!!
I'm at work now and this must be a quick post - more later, but apparently they are now denying bond.
Furious does not begin to touch my state of mind on this. ( Breathe, breathe, breathe)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/ice-family-separation-bond-denial-1/
Luminata, I believe whoever is responsible can be held in contempt of court. The wheels of justice still grind on, however slowly. R1
I've been in the local detention center based courtroom, more than once. Bond is 100% at the discretion of the judge in the room at the time. Bond amounts have gone up a lot lately. Sometimes acceptance of bond is also contingent upon wearing ankle monitors upon release. Also, 90% of people bonded out have to have a "sponsor" in the courtroom who agrees to provide shelter, accept financial responsibility and to pay the bond in the first place. There are no bail bondsmen for immigration courts. A close friend of mine is out $15,000 because 2 people she bonded out have absconded and cut off their ankle monitors. (An example of the bad apples spoiling the barrel for everyone else.)
Thanks for this R1. I've come across it and found it confusing. It's spreading on social media!
I'm reading a book called "The Baby Farmers" by Annie Cossins. It's a true crime story about murdered children in Australia in the 1800's. I'm sharing this because one of the first chapters talks about children being taken from their convict mothers the minute they arrive in Australia. The children were placed in orphanages and that was that. Over 150 years ago. I have never heard about this. It's unbearable to see how little things have changed.
The US has its own legacy of displacing, removing, and abusing children. There were the orphan trains that took children from Eastern cities and dumped them into the hands of whites in the West. For more than a hundred years, Indian children were forcibly removed from their families and placed in boarding schools designed to assimilate them to white culture. There are many books and sites describing the abuse suffered by these children. Most Native sites describe the cycle of intergenerational trauma created by forced removal and assimilation that still work to corrode Native families and culture and kill Native youth. It doesn't take long to destroy a child. Yesterday's report of the return of a lice-covered 14-month old immigrant child to his mother after 85 days without a bath curdles everything inside me. I already wrote my congressman AGAIN. Please join me in praying for this child. I go from feeling helpless and enraged about this situation to just holding the children long and lovingly in prayer.
Holding, holding, holding.
Thank you all there is and ever will be for giving this child the endurance to maintain, survive, and find her way back to the mother inspite of challenging conditions, pain, and heartache.
May she carry the knowledge of strength and power always within herself and remember the goodness, kindness, and love of a mother's heart and caring arms now and forever.
May she live a long and fruitful life where all she remembers and carries within her only make her and the roots of her family tree stronger and able to endure more, understand more, grow more into their power and may all who know her, knew her, or remember her carry their own strong and fruitful seeds of strength and endurance strengthened and growing into light bearers and warriors, themselves.
Going through my sister's papers, I found a piece on the orphan trains. One boy told of getting off the train with others, and everybody was picked but him, they found an older couple to take him for the day only. He wanted to stay forever. They said no, but at the last minute, they took him. He said he knew some of the kids weren't treated well, but he had a wonderful life, so not all orphans were abused, and it took them away from life in the city where many of them were still orphans, hungry and maybe abused.